Fall 2010 Graduate Seminar EL6095
feminisms in and out of time
DING Naifei
Thursday 900-1200, C2-437
dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw; subject: EL6095

 

Course Description:
“The condition of being vanquished apparently contains an inexhaustible epistemological potential.  Historical change feeds upon the vanquished. Should they survive, they create the irreplaceable primary experience of all histories: that histories take another course than that intended by those involved. This always unique experience cannot be chosen and remains unrepeatable. […] Once experience has been methodologically transposed into knowledge by the vanquished – and which victor does not finally belong to them? – it remains accessible beyond all change of experience. This might offer some comfort, perhaps a gain. In practice, it would mean saving us from victories. Yet every experience speaks against it.”  (Koselleck, The Practice of Conceptual History, “Transformations of Experience,” p. 83)

Class schedule:

9.16 Introduction: in and out of time
9.23 劉人鵬。2000。第三章，〈「西方美人」慾望裡的「中國」與「二萬萬女子」－晚清以迄五四的國族與婦女〉，《近代中國女權論述──國族、翻譯與性別政治》。台北：台灣學生書局，129-200頁
Liu Jen-peng, "The disposition of hierarchy and late Qing 'discourse of gender equality'" in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2001
Antonis Liakos, "On Negative Consciousness"
9.30 Fredric Jameson, “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” in Social Text, No. 15 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 65-88
10.7 oral presentations 1
10.14 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography,” In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, Methuen, 1987, 197-221
10.21 Tejaswini Niranjana, “’Left to the Imagination’: Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality,” Mobilizing India: women, music, migration between India and Trinidad, Duke University Press, 2006, 55-84
10.28 NO CLASS
11.4 oral presentations 2
11.11 Carolyn Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives, Rutgers University Press, 1987
11.18 Carolyn Steedman, Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age, “Introduction: on service and silences,” and “Lives and writing,” Cambridge University Press, 2007, 1-28, 47-65
11.25 oral presentations 3; essay 1 due
12.2 Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the politics of Queer History, “Introduction” and “The Demands of Queer History,” Harvard University Press, 2007, 1-52
12.9 Heather Love, “Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn” (NLH: “New Sociologies of Literature” June 2010)
12.16 oral presentations 4
12.23 Reinhart Koselleck, “Modernity and the Planes of Historicity” and “Terror and Dream: Methodological Remarks on the Experience of Time during the Third Reich” in Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, Columbia University Press, 2004, 9-25, 205-201
12.30 顧玉玲。《我們》，台北：印刻出版，2008。
1.6 oral presentations 5
1.13 Essay 2 due

Requirements:
1. Oral presentation 20%
2. Weekly journal due each Tuesday evening (8-10) 30%
3. Two essays (7-10 pages) 50%

Texts:
A xeroxed reader will be available at Gaoguan the first week of classes.

 

 
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